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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Gunmen killed a female polio worker and injured another near the northwest city of Peshawar on Tuesday, the latest in a series of assaults on vaccination teams working to eradicate the disease in Pakistan. The women were vaccinating children in Kaga Wala, a village perched on the edge of the country’s volatile tribal belt, when two men opened fire, said Shafeeullah Khan, a local police official. One of the workers was critically injured in the attack and was being treated for gunshot wounds at a Peshawar hospital. No one claimed responsibility for the assault, but last year the Pakistani Taliban denounced polio vaccination drives as a guise for U.S....

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